Stef started Pannier back in 2011, whilst working as an architect in London. He is the creatively-minded guy at Pannier >> looking after the Pannier Shop, Journal (curating trips, illustrating maps and editing submissions), as well as working alongside Dave on certain aspects of the Pannier Experiences like routing and meal plans, hosting and guiding.

Out in the field, he’ll likely be towards the back of the group chatting about maps, ensuring each tourer’s bike and kit are packed properly, garnishing the food, pouring drinks from great heights, swimming at any opportunity, and manning the cheese-wheel.

Dave joined Pannier in early 2018, following another role in the cycle travel industry. Originally trained as a mechanical engineer – specialising in restoring and rebuilding heritage Rolls-Royce & Bentley motor cars – he is the practical, mechanically-minded guy at Pannier: heading up Pannier Travel which involves setting up and carrying out all the ground-work for current and future Experiences. If you book or enquire about a Pannier Camp/Tour/Expedition you’ll most likely hear from him; please do get in touch if you have any queries.

Out in the field, he can be found tinkering with bikes, sprinting ahead to take photos and manning the camp hot drink station to make sure Pannier tourers enjoy their best ever morning coffee…or tea.

Base // London and South East, UK.

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Are you a seasoned tourer? Guide in a far-off land where we should definitely be offering a bikepacking trip? Or, just interested in getting involved somehow? Please get in touch with us – basecamp@pannier.cc

THE 15KPH CLUB

“On a bicycle you go fast enough to cover a whole continent in a reasonable time and slow enough to see very many interesting things”

[Frank Van Rijn]

At the end of every trip, we kept noticing the same magical average speed, once we’d factored in added time for gnocchi-lunches, bothy-coffees and tarn swims, of course. So the The 15KPH Club is our tongue-in-cheek stamp for our Pannier pace. Sometimes it’s even less…

If you have any stories from trips (past or present) or are planning a tour in the near future and keen to pitch an idea for the Pannier Journal, please do send us an email – journal@pannier.cc – we are are always interested to hear from fellow travelling cyclists. Hopefully we can add you to our list of contributors so far:

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…join the Pannier community of bikepackers, tourers and armchair adventurers. We send our “Tourer’s Digest” email roughly once/month: a steaming campmugfull of what’s been happening at Pannier HQ, early-tourer information on our Tours & Expeditions, and links to all the cool stuff we’ve seen along the way. See you out there…

COVID-19 UPDATE / 15.04.20

…whilst we are unable to run our Tours & Expeditions, we are still appreciative and dispatching online orders, including Touring Vouchers, and our latest Zine. Please email us if you need something you can’t find, or want any help >> basecamp@pannier.cc. See you out there, sometime soon!

A WELCOME, AND VIRTUAL TOAST...

…thanks for heading over. Please bear with us as we come to terms with the impact of Covid-19 – we’re currently rescheduling all trips planned before August 2020, and working on a special schedule for September 2020 and beyond. Please check back now and again / join our mailing list for all updates and launches 🙂 Hope to see you out there…